BACKGROUND Slow progress has been made in achieving the Millennium Development Goals 4 and 5 in Ghana. Ensuring continuum of care (at least four antenatal visits; skilled birth attendance; postnatal care within 48 hours, at two weeks, and six weeks) for mother and newborn is crucial in helping Ghana achieve these goals and beyond. This study examined the levels and factors associated with conti...

INTRODUCTION Colonoscopy remains the gold standard for the investigation and management of bowel pathology. A 2009 National Bowel Cancer Screening Program Quality Working Group report revealed that small rural towns in inner regional Victoria, Australia, for example Echuca (Rural and Remote Metropolitan Areas [RRMA] 4), registered 10.5 colonoscopies per 1000 population versus 18.5 per 1000 in t...

We first present new structural properties of a two-pair in various graphs. A twopair is used in a well-known characterization of weakly chordal graphs. Based on these properties, we prove the main theorem: a graph G is a weakly chordal (K2,3, 4P2, P2 ∪ P4, P6,H1,H2,H3)-free graph if and only if G is an edge intersection graph of subtrees on a tree with maximum degree 4. This characterizes the ...

The gas-phase structures of the disilanes 1,1,2,2-tetrakis(trimethylsilyl)disilane [(Me3Si)2HSiSiH(SiMe3)2] (1) and 1,1,2,2-tetrakis(trimethylsilyl)dimethyldisilane [(Me3Si)2MeSiSiMe(SiMe3)2] (2) have been determined by density functional theoretical calculations and by gas electron diffraction (GED) employing the SARACEN method. For each of 1 and 2 DFT calculations revealed four C2-symmetric c...

Polysomnographic findings were compared with data obtained subsequently from home documented monitoring in order to study the diagnostic value of both techniques. Polysomnography was performed in 1274 infants born prematurely and in 422 patients admitted because of apparent life threatening events (ALTEs). In 72 of the infants, home documented monitoring of the cardiorespiratory pattern, includ...

College education has been shown to improve the labor market success of young people. Using data from the 1997 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, I estimate a wage model and an unemployment model where respondents are grouped according to their degree attainment and college attendance. I find that associate degrees recipients get paid by 21-23 percent more than high school graduates while a...

BACKGROUND previous UK National Audits of Continence Care showed low rates of assessment and treatment of faecal incontinence (FI) in older people. OBJECTIVE the 2009 audit assessed adherence to the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence guidelines on management of FI and compared care in older versus younger patients. METHODS fifteen older (65+) and 15 younger (18-65) patien...

In this paper we propose an abstract model of rewriting based on a functional view of terms abstractly considered as contexts that can be applied to other contexts yelding new ones Some basic operations on contexts are de ned and their properties pointed out that allow us to reformulate the de nition of the main concepts involved in rewriting and to prove Knuth Bendix theorem The notion of occu...